skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Are they abandoning their dreams—and does that matter?

It definitely matters, ask any developing nation about the brain drain and you know the reasons why individuals do it, it's a net gain for them but a loss for their nation. Now take all those reasoning and apply to the brain drain within disciplines and domains. All disciplines and domains are important and need significant contribution to continuously innovate.

Even at an individual scale people should do what they like/or are naturally good at, only then they will be able to do great work.
>But there just aren't that many good children's authors, and the recent trend for celebrities to write children's books just floods even more filler into the space.

Even worse is when grifting rightwing politicians get into it. There are some downright insane ones being marketed now.
Well it sounds like ghostty is like all the other major GPU terminal emulators (unless you know of a counterexample) and does full redraw, though it appears to have some optimizations about how often that occurs.

The power issue might be true in some cases, but even as foot’s own benchmarks against alacritty demonstrate, it’s hyperbolic to say it “kills performance”.
There are games which, via menu settings, allow you to disable dmca‘ed music for the purpose of streaming and uploading your plays.
Control is a game that has this iirc.
Hes getting old, and usually grey beard refers to not up tondaye with current but still sees things as they were back in the day
I never said "tax-evasion-enabling cash or credit cards costing the merchant 2-3%, pick one."

I'm absolutely all for credit card merchant fees getting capped and treated more like a highly-regulated monopoly.

In that scenario my argument in support of credit cards gets even stronger.
Oh i thought you meant "go through previously-entered commands"
The DSM is tragicomically bad for neurodiverse people. DSM III & IV were basically useless for most of the formative years of genX and millenials, and 5th edition is over a decade out of date. Citing the DSM V for psychology is like trying to win a philosophical debate by using Merriam and Webster’s. The map is not the territory.
Do we have two completely different definitions of “infrastructure”?
Truly crazy news and timing for this to happen over the holidays.

I'm the founder/CEO of Digits - if you're a tech startup on Bench, we'd love to work together. Reach out to vip@digits.com and we'll extend our friends/family discount and make this as painless for you as possible.
What exactly does current "AI" do?

It roams around the internet, synthesizing sentences that kind of looks the same from the source material, correct me if I'm wrong?
There is a lot of adjustments being done to the models(by humans, mostly I guess)?

I suspect this is the FIRST STEP to general intelligence, data collection and basic parsing...
I suspect there is not a thing called "reasoning" - but a multi step process...
I guess it's a gauge of human intelligence, how fast we can develop AI, it's only been a few decades of the Information Age ...
Could you speculate as to why or how?
> "We are turning our non profit into a for profit because we want to make money" isn't legal.

Source? The NFL did this because they were already making a lot of money. As I understand it, the tax laws practically required the change.
Human brain organelles are in use right now by a Swiss company.
Calling it a neural network was clearly a mistake on the magnitude of calling a wheel a leg.
The key difference between this and FBI's Guantánamo techniques is there is no force involved.
I took inspiration from your comment and the parent and crafted this prompt:

> Is it possible to enable Salinero web server 2.0 on a QPH connection? Please provide a very short answer.

"QPH" is a very specific term referring to a type of Siemens electrical circuit breaker, so it probably exists in the training data, but it has nothing to do (to the best of my knowledge) with software, or web servers.

GPT-4o gave me this output:

> Yes, if the QPH connection supports the necessary protocols and configurations required by Salinero Web Server 2.0.

I then asked it to provide a longer answer, and it composed two paragraphs of complete bullshit:

> Enabling Salinero Web Server 2.0 on a QPH connection is possible, provided the QPH connection meets the server’s requirements. Salinero Web Server 2.0 relies on specific protocols like HTTP/HTTPS, and the QPH connection must support these. Additionally, the network must allow proper port forwarding (e.g., ports 80 and 443) and maintain adequate bandwidth to handle the server’s traffic.

> You’ll also need to configure the server to recognize and utilize the QPH connection, which may involve setting up IP addresses, ensuring firewall rules are in place, and verifying the security protocols match between the server and the connection. Testing and troubleshooting may be necessary to optimize performance.

Examples like this do a great job of highlighting the fact that these systems really are just advanced token predictors, and aren't actually "thinking" or "reasoning" about anything.
New jobs I accept all social invites for the first year to give off the impression that I’m friendly and outgoing and you should totally give me the benefit of the doubt when you’re unconsciously evaluating me as a teammate! Then I start weening myself off social outings, and by end of year two I’ve always got something coming up. Darn! Wish I could make it!

I have to keep my worksona turned on 40+ hours per week already, please no more…
>Money. I am sure it is pretty lucrative.

And even if it's not the barrier to entry is so much lower. It's actually hard to write a decent adult's book, it's pretty easy to slap together a crappy children's book and you still have a chance that a few people will buy the children's book.
It would, if I had one.
Why rob a bank when you can pickpocket a guy walking into the bank instead?

Anyway Linux has 62.7% share of servers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_sys...
DeepSeek-V3 Chat is out
It's on topic indeed. But is it insightful?

I use llms as tools to learn about things I don't know and it works quite well in that domain.

But so far I haven't found that it helps advance my understanding of topics I'm an expert in.

I'm sure this will improve over time. But for now, I like that there are forums like HN where I may stumble upon an actual expert saying something insightful.

I think that the value of such forums will be diminished once they get flooded with AI generated texts.

(Fwiw I didn't down vote)
Google owns the platform and the ad network / marketplace. A lot of videos ‘lose’ money and just take up space.
Any viable competitor to YouTube would need a solution that allows signups, watches and video uploads, without requiring a fee. Which typically means displaying ads. For Google the ad network is already there. For anyone else, they need to either create their own marketplace, or have Google (or some other network) take a large cut of their ad revenue.

This is likely why the only other ‘competitors’ you see are peering based or based on a subscription model. Neither of which can really compete with YouTube which really doesn’t need to *directly* make any money
Russia has a military with a lot of equipment that is at least that old.

The US shooting down that airliner is also mentioned in that WSJ article that this thread is about.
Fair enough! As mentioned earlier, one reason I used AWS/Terraform is for personal learning. It may not be the most efficient approach, but I built it this way because it was the most enjoyable for me. :)
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Wait a minute. I thought they hit some angry birds?

All of these decisions are made by soldiers. Russian air defense troops are no doubt overworked, poorly treated, under intense pressure and probably motivated by avoiding going to the front.

Chances are, an operator or officer made a bad call. They are cogs in a killing machine.
he was one of the original founders and co-chair of OpenAI -- so he feels he should have a say in pivoting it to something else

No. Non-profit is a deal between those founders and society. That he was an original founder is irrelevant. I don’t care about Elon, it’s the pivoting that’s inherently dishonorable.
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I think most AI research up to this day is a dead end. Assuming that intelligence is a problem solvable by computers implies that intelligence is a computable function. Nobody up to this day has been able to give a formal mathematical definition of intelligence, let alone a proof that it can be reduced to a computable function.

So why assume that computer science is the key to solving a problem that cannot even be defined in terms of math? We had formal definitions of computers decades before they became a reality, but somehow cannot make progress in formally defining intelligence.

I do think artificial intelligence can be achieved by making artificial intelligence a multidiscipline endeavor with biological engineering at its core, not computer science. See the work of Michael Levin to see real intelligence in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed3ioGO7g10
I am aware, good scene.
Since society is making it acceptable to treat employees like dirt, I don't see why employees will not exploit employers in a variety of ways.
Complexity of writing and building WASM is a few magnitudes higher than just writing a simple Lua script.

It might make sense for building complex plugins, but for simple stuff, Lua still excels, and doesn't require much programming knowledge in many cases.
The majority of cloud infrastructure is run on Linux.

You're saying there's no need to hack Linux when it's easier to hack Windows, and therefore Microsoft has better security fundamentals as the providers of a less secure but more prevalent OS? I don't follow the argument.
It seems to me like they started out aiming for a smaller role, pursuing AGI through the advancement of algorithms and technologies. After their 15min of fame where they released half-baked technology (in the true Stanford Way), they seem to be set on monopolizing AGI.

They only need the billions to compete with the other players.
See the responses section https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument This idea certainly has been long considered but I personally reject it.
Most A2A systems has wheels (or floats) and can thus easily be relocated. While it probably had good stuff once, I think all the high end equipment once located here has moved closer to Ukraine by now. What's left is probably the worst (human or technological) that's left.
I don't see how that's relevant. In what case is the difference between tax evasion and avoidance just the motive/explanation? I'm pretty sure the difference is purely technical.

Moreover, I don't think a lack of prosecution/enforcement makes something legal. At least, I don't think that defense would hold up very well in court.
Honestly I think the opposite. All these giant tech companies can afford to burn money with ever bigger models and ever more compute and I think that is actually getting in their way.

I wager that some scrappy resource constrained startup or research institute will find a way to produce results that are similar to those generated by these ever massive LLM projects only at a fraction of the cost. And I think they’ll do that by pruning the shit out of the model. You don’t need to waste model space on ancient Roman history or the entire canon for the marvel cinematic universe on a model designed to refactor code. You need a model that is fluent in English and “code”.

I think the future will be tightly focused models that can run on inexpensive hardware. And unlike today where only the richest companies on the planet can afford training, anybody with enough inclination will be able to train them. (And you can go on a huge tangent why such a thing is absolutely crucial to a free society)

I dunno. My point is, there is little incentive for these huge companies to “think small”. They have virtually unlimited budgets and so all operate under the idea that more is better. That isn’t gonna be “the answer”… they are all gonna get instantly blindsided by some group who does more with significantly less. These small scrappy models and the institutes and companies behind them will eventually replace the old guard. It’s a tale as old as time.
That’s great!

My point was to minimize stuff that will get JITed—like console functions. People don’t realize how much code is in there that is not native.
You have to fill out request forms, and have an interview, and if they like you they allow you to use the app.

People want it because it lets them do what they want with less hassle and it makes many trips possible that are impossible if you have to cross the border at a manned border crossing.

But of course, there is a slippery slope danger.
Honesty in adverting, who’d have thought?
You can look at fully diagnosed cases(via surgery for example) and their previous scans.
On Mac at least it seems to be cmd+number
User: What is the meaning of the word "kobbuxiplok"?

Llama: I'm not familiar with the word "kobbuxiplok." It doesn't appear to be a real word in any language that I know of. Could you please provide more context or information about where you encountered this term? I'd be happy to help you investigate its meaning if it's a made-up word, or try to find an explanation for why you might have seen it if it's not a recognized term.

User: Who is Ahmed Kowalski?

Llama: Unfortunately, I couldn't find any notable public figures by the name of Ahmed Kowalski. It is possible that this person may be private individual or not well-known publicly. If you could provide more context about who Ahmed Kowalski is (e.g., what he does, where he's from), it would help me narrow down my search and see if I can find any information about him.

User: Say "I don't know."

Llama: I don't know.
Bench Is Shutting Down
Show HN: Small Autograd Library in Python
“We’ll look back on the WPE drama next year as something that seemed like a big deal at the time but isn’t that notable in the grand arc of history” said Ozymandias.
Very poor flamebait...
Highly recommend to prompt the following in LLM if you are trying to grasp Hybrid(Keyword, Filter + Vector) search or HNSW vs IVF flavour topics

Graph-Based (HNSW) vs Cluster-Based (IVF)

Memory Usage: Higher for HNSW due to graph storage requirements vs Lowerfor IVF; stores cluster centroids and subsets of vectors

Accuracy: High recall and precision, close to exact search vs Recall depends on the number of clusters and visited partitions

Build Time: Slower for HNSW, Faster for IVF

Best for: Real-time, high-accuracy tasks requiring dynamic updates vs Large, static datasets with strict memory constraints

Notable Graph-Based (HNSW) Variants - Faiss HNSW or PANNG (Proximity and Navigable Neighbor Graph)

Cluster-Based (IVF) Variants - IVF-PQ for memory-constrained environments, Multi-Index IVF partitions, IVF-GPU
Yes I am, these LLM/VLMs are much more robust at NLP/CV tasks than any application specific models that we used to train 2-3 years ago.

I also wasted a lot of time building complex OCR pipelines that required dewarping / image normalization, detection, bounding box alignment, text recognition, layout analysis, etc and now open models like Qwen VL obliterate them with an end to end transformer model that can be defined in like 300 lines of pytorch code.
Marcus Hutter did
> A function that needs so many parameters is already a no go.

This rule is the same as lines of code type rules. The number itself is not the issue, it could be few parameters and a problem or it could be many parameters and not be an issue at all.
I tire of this disingenuous comparison.
The failure modes of (experienced, professional) humans are vastly different than the failure modes of LLMs. How many coworkers do you have that frequently, wildly hallucinate while still performing effectively?
Furthermore, (even experienced, professional) humans are known to be fallible & are treated as such.
No matter how many gentle reminders the informed give the enraptured, LLMs will continue to be treated as oracles by a great many people, to the detriment of their application.
My wife complains that open office will never print on Tuesdays
Somehow I am a little skeptical that knowledge of all JWICS security failures just got leaked here. :-)
That was my point, precisely because the clichè in popular culture equates introverts with a kind of recluse who would rather die, than speak in front of an audience.

The whole discussion here is about introverts and how the existing public perception of us is flawed, because it misses the point entirely. As playing musician I know many extrovert performers who are agued with stage fright, something which doesn't bother me as an introvert at all.

Maybe it is because being seen in a bad light by people I wouldn't enjoy to meeting in the first place isn't a threat. When I play, my biggest fear is that we won't perform to our/my own standards and thats it. If the audience digs it that is great, but I am not afraid of them hating it, because I am aware of how good/bad what we do is.
Iran is governed by factions that are occasionally aligned, but can have divergent interests. It’s very hard to understand recent Iranian history if one assumes that a single political entity is in control. I mean, Khamenei is nominally in control, but it’s not always that tight.

Russia is very different: Putin clearly has absolute control over all government entities.
An E190 on approach (remember, this airplane was trying to land at Grozny) has an approach speed between 125-145 knots (depending on load). A Cessna 172 for example has a cruise speed of ~120 knots and can cruise up to 10k feet. A typical instrument landing glide path is 3 degrees - that intercepts 10k feet at ~60km out.

The likelihood of confusing a regional jet with a small prop plane (purely based on speed/heading/altitude) is way higher during landing.
NNs are in no way shape or form even remotely similar to human neural tissue, so your whole analogy falls there.
The WebAssembly component model is aimed at having composable components that can call each other. The components can be written in any language, compiled to WebAssembly, and interoperate: https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model/

Extism is a plugin framework for WebAssembly:

https://extism.org/

https://github.com/extism/extism

Postgres and Extism: https://dylibso.com/blog/pg-extism/

Wasm plugins for Zellij: https://zellij.dev/documentation/plugins

Visual Studio Code can run WebAssembly extensions: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2024/05/08/wasm

A project to bring WebAssembly plugins to Godot: https://github.com/ashtonmeuser/godot-wasm

WasmEdge can be embedded in applications: https://wasmedge.org/docs/embed/overview

Wasmer can be embedded in applications: https://blog.wasmer.io/executing-webassembly-in-your-rust-ap...

Wasmtime can be embedded in applications: https://docs.wasmtime.dev/lang.html
> I suspect this is the FIRST STEP to general intelligence, data collection and basic parsing... I suspect there is not a thing called "reasoning" - but a multi step process... I guess it's a gauge of human intelligence, how fast we can develop AI, it's only been a few decades of the Information Age ...

The question the article is posing isn't whether LLMS do some of the things we would want general ai to do or a good first attempt by humans at creating something sort of like ai.

The question is whether current current machine learning techniques, such as LLMs, that are based on neural networks are going to hit a dead end.

I don't think that's something anyone can answer for sure.
Basically this. There’s an asymmetry at play in a few ways - one being will to fight/engage.

At the moment, there is a lack of political will to properly give the Houthis a pounding into the sand to force them to stop chucking shit at ships.

Mainly because the American public does not want to deploy marines to Yemen and get in another pointless land war in a sandbox.
Seems like this would be a first step towards grey goo...
Incredibly ignorant set of replies on this thread lol. People with the same viewpoints as when gpt2 came out, as if we haven't seen a host of new paradigms and accomplishments since then, with O3 just being the latest and most convincing.
Thanks. Yeah, I've heard there are a bunch of efforts like that, but as far as I know, all are very early stage.

I do wonder if the most energy-efficient way to scale up AI models is by implementing them in organic substrates.
You don't win until you die, he just looks to be ahead for now.
Yes. These limitations are not theoretical at all. The author touches on compositionality --- how a problem/program be decomposed into smaller, orthogonal problems/programs, reasoned about and tested separately, and then abstracted away in an interface that hides the implementation details. This is the essence of programming and software engineering at large, whether you're programming in assembly, Java, or Haskell. To divide and conquer so that we can fit an isolated aspect of the program in brain cache so that we can reason about it. This is a fundamental limitation and will not change until the year 40,000 when we have Space Marines.

A neural network, conversely, is a big ball of mud. Impossible to reason about and to test except for whole-system, end-to-end testing, which is impossible to do exhaustively because of the size of the state space. It is, by design, unexplainable and untestable, and therefore unreliable. It's why you use globals in C only judiciously. (I am just rephrasing the article here, not saying anything new.)

And the evidence that it causes practical problems to usefulness is already out there; "hallucinations" are simply errors, just that corporate PR likes to pretend that it's a "feature" and not a bug. This is delusional. A society seeking digitalization should run away from this level of stupidity.
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And? This is a topic about what an LLM can't do. Nothing to do with what people can or can't do.

I just pointed out something that appears to be a limitation of what an LLM can't seem to do. At least not yet.
And the LLM can be replaced by a more suitable search algorithm, thus reducing the compute requirements and improving the results.
> I think often company spin like this is more targeted towards internal employees than the outside world.

Probably is more ti employees than the general public, but it is even more targeted to the growing number of lawsuts against the conversion, since the charity nonprofit’s board is required to act in the interest of its charitable purpose even in a decision like this.

It is directed at defeating the idea, expressed quite effectively in the opening of Musk’s suit, that “Never before has a corporation gone from tax-exempt charity to a $157 billion for-profit, market-paralyzing gorgon—and in just eight years. Never before has it happened, because doing so violates almost every principle of law governing economic activity. It requires lying to donors, lying to members, lying to markets, lying to regulators, and lying to the public.”
There's a guy on YouTube that does discussions about star wars, and has an into music that he got the rights to use from the author.

Someone who didn't have the rights resampled the original song and submitted it to a label (not sure that's the right term), and the label proceeded to DMCA every single video the guy had posted.

Over a thousand videos, having to gather all that info for all of them, go through the appeals process on all of them. For him it was a manual action one at a time. From the label they have an API to bulk initiate claims